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Archives of the late King of Kandy. There can be no question however, as to 

 its genuineness. I have compared it with such parts of the stone as still 

 remain, and have found that it exactly corresponds with the stone. The style 

 and matter too of the inscription furnish indisputable evidence of it genuine- 

 ness and authenticity, 



iS The inscription records the erection and endowment of a Buddhist Temple 

 in memory of his deceased mother Sunetra Maha Devi, by King Sri Parakrama 

 Bahu VI , who reigned at Kotte (according to Tumour) from A. D. 1410 to 

 1162. It also contains a variety of provisions for the due maintenance of the 

 temple : for the expenditure of its income : and regulations for the observance 

 of the clerical and lay members of the establishment* 



" The style of the inscription is similar to that of other writings of the 14th 

 or I5th centuries ; and Mr. Alwis has published in his Introduction to the Sidat 

 Sangard, the introductory paragraph of the inscription as a specimen of the 

 prose of that age, The construction of the sentences, however, is very peculiar. 

 The whole of the inscription, which is a very long one, is conglomerated, as it 

 were, into one sentence by means of conjunctive particles and participles, hav- 

 ing apparently only one finite verb expressed. The words iu general are those 

 in modern use, with a very few exceptions which I have noticed in the notes. 



